Staff and trustees
Staff
Dominique Muller, Director
Dominique is the current Director of the CJC taking over from Eleanor while Eleanor is on maternity leave (March 2025 onwards). Dominique has extensive experience in network building, campaigning and policy work on corporate justice. This includes roles as researcher for Amnesty International and as Executive Director for the International Trade Union Confederation Hong Kong Office. Dominique has built up expertise in various sectors including fashion industry, construction and occupational health and safety in global supply chains. Previous roles include work as the European coordinator for the Clean Clothes Campaign in Amsterdam, Policy Lead at the UK based Labour Behind the Label and board member at the fair Wear Foundation. An expert in modern slavery, labour rights and human rights, Dominique previously studied human rights law and Chinese criminal law.
Luise Schroter, Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer
Luise joined CJC as Policy and Campaigns Officer in 2023. She specialises in access to justice for victims and corporate accountability, as well as environmental policy and legal frameworks. Her Master’s dissertation, which won her the Edinburgh University W.A. Wilson Price, focused on reversing the burden of proof in human rights due diligence legislation. She enjoys campaigning with local activists and, during her time in Edinburgh, created her own student group to raise awareness on corporate human rights abuses. She holds an LLB in International and European Law, a BBA in International Business, and an LLM in International Law.
Poppy Facer, Advocacy and Communications Officer
Poppy joined the CJC team in January 2025 bringing over five years of experience working across policy, advocacy, communications and resource mobilisation. This includes experience working in global health, climate justice and as a consultant for the UK social impact sector. Poppy has also lead advocacy projects targeting national, regional and global-level stakeholders.
Poppy has an international Master’s degree in Human Rights Policy and Practice where she focused her studies on the intersections between human rights, climate change and corporate responsibility.
Alejandra joined the team as Policy and Advocacy Assistant, bringing over nine years of experience working across advocacy, public policy, and communications in the legal, humanitarian, and environmental sectors in Latin America and the UK. Her experience includes supporting strategic advocacy initiatives, coordinating coalitions, and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders. She has also led projects focused on multilingual communications, policy development, and evidence-based research in collaboration with Indigenous communities, rural communities, and civil society organisations. She is a lawyer specialising in environmental law.
Eleanor Rosenbach, (Maternity Leave)
Eleanor took up the position of Director at CJC in 2024, bringing with her more than a decade of experience in communications, campaigning, and coalition working. She has extensive experience in human rights and has worked with local and international NGOs in the UK, Spain and Latin America, collaborating on and leading campaigns and successful initiatives to uphold rights and strengthen legal frameworks.She holds an MSc in International Migration and Public Policy, and has a particular interest in the intersection of migrant and labour rights.
Eleanor is on maternity leave as of March 2025.
Trustees
Elaine Gilligan, Chair of the Board
Elaine has over twenty-five years’ experience of leading change for Friends of the Earth, including working on ground-breaking projects on citizen rights and action for justice, through to supporting environmentalists at risk around the world. Elaine has significant experience of being on boards of NGOs, including seven years on the Board of Friends of the Earth International.
Dan Leader
Dan Leader is a barrister and partner at Leigh Day with 20 years’ litigation experience. He specialises in international human rights and environmental litigation with a particular focus on group actions by claimants from the developing world. Dan has lived in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya, where he worked with local lawyers on human rights and public interest cases: in 2001 he was awarded the Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith award for his contribution to pro bono work in Africa. From 2014 to 2017 he was an independent expert member of the Government Steering Board which oversees the implementation of the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Adaeze Okoye
Adaeze Okoye is a Principal Lecturer at the School of Business and Law, University of Brighton. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Hull and is a qualified barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, as well as being an honorary member of the honourable society of the Inner Temple. Adaeze leads the University of Brighton, Law, Society and Justice Research Excellence Group. She has authored the monograph, Legal approaches and corporate social responsibility, and is an active researcher in the field of business and human rights, with special interest in modern slavery regulation across supply chains and countries. She also sits on the editorial advisory board of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies open access book series, Reimagining Law and Justice.
Tim Cooke-Hurle
Tim is a barrister at Doughty Street Chambers where he practises a broad range of civil and international law, including cases raising business and human rights issues. He has been a junior counsel in cases such as The Bodo Community v Shell and The Ogale Community v Shell, both cases arising from oil pollution in Nigeria, Various v African Barrick Gold, concerning mining operations in Tanzania and Various v British Airways and Simon Woods in Kenya. He also advises in relation to complaints under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, such as in the case of Crude Accountability v the KPO Consortium in Kazakhstan and Americans for Democracy and Human Rights in Bahrain v the Formula One Group.
Mustafa Qadri
Mustafa Qadri is the Founder and Executive Director of Equidem Research and Consulting, a specialist human rights and labour rights investigations consultancy. He is a human rights research and advocacy expert with over 15 years of interdisciplinary experience in government and public international law, journalism and the non-governmental sector. Mustafa is the author of several landmark human rights reports into the construction industry, civil and political rights issues, and media freedom, including most recently ‘The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game’ – the first independent human rights investigation to uncover labour abuse on Qatar 2022 World Cup construction sites.
Susie Talbot
Susie Talbot is the Founder and Director of the Anima Mundi Law Initiative, which advances creative legal strategies and transformation at the intersection of human rights, rights of nature and regenerative ecology. She also works collaboratively with advocates and communities around the world to strengthen economic, social and cultural rights, corporate accountability, and substantive equality. Susie was formerly Legal Director of ESCR-Net, has facilitated participatory strategy workshops in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia, and led strategic litigation and advocacy initiatives at other NGOs including INTERIGHTS, the Kurdish Human Rights Project and Minority Rights Group International. She is a member of the Feminists for a Binding Treaty coalition.
Barbara Davies Quy
Barbara has over 20 years’ experience in international development, specialising in supporting Indigenous Peoples and local communities to protect their lands and forests, develop sustainable livelihoods, and address climate change across South America and Africa. She has worked extensively on international advocacy with organisations such as CAFOD, leading engagement at the UK, EU, and UN level to advance environmental justice and human rights, including promote corporate accountability.
For over five years, Barbara has led policy work at Size of Wales, driving efforts to reduce Wales’ overseas deforestation footprint by engaging with Welsh Government, public bodies and businesses. She also manages Size of Wales’ international programmes, supporting Indigenous and local communities to protect tropical forests.
She also has experience of being on boards of NGOs, including three years on the Board of Cardiff Women’s Aid.
Edward Gillespie
Ed has over a 15 years’ experience building strategic partnerships between the private sector and global non-profits. For the last 8 years he was Head of New Partnerships at Oxfam GB, developing strategic engagements with business to address human rights and environmental impacts within global supply chains. Collaborating across the organisation’s global confederation, he has worked on projects on labour rights, sustainable livelihoods, gender equality, climate justice, the circular economy, and humanitarian response. Prior to Oxfam, Ed worked extensively across Asia on behalf of Oxford University Press as Head of Oxford Global Language Solutions.
